Sentences with phrase «illegal loggers»

NEWS: A year after four Ashéninka men were killed by illegal loggers, their community has secured rights to the territory

However, it is not uncommon for Brazil nut collectors to find signs of illegal loggers in their harvest areas.

But Ouch Leng (ook leng) and other critics say reports of raids and other high - profile shows of force against illegal loggers belie the lack of arrests or prosecutions of those cutting and trading in illegal timber.

According to a representative from the Guajajara community in northeastern Brazil, a group of illegal loggers recently captured a young indian girl from a neighboring uncontacted tribe and burned her to death.

Sampit, West Kalimantan — The Centre for Orangutan Protection (COP) and the people of Tumbang Koling village stand up today to fight for illegal loggers and palm oil companies that damage their traditional forests located at Cempaga upriver.

Within minutes, rangers appear as if from nowhere, stopping illegal loggers in their tracks and saving countless trees.

The Brazilian government has been stepping up their pressure on illegal loggers and cattle ranchers by halting bank loans and confiscating products.

They live outdoors in all weathers, for two weeks at a time, and face a daily battle of tracking illegal loggers and poachers, who are often armed.

Later, after the Brazilian federal government and the state of Rondí» nia enacted laws to protect the remaining territory, the Suruí themselves began striking deals with illegal loggers and selling the wood for a pittance — largely because, in economic terms, the forest was worth more dead than alive.

I wonder how Carlos Minc's statement that «we're going to blow all 100 [of the worst illegal loggers] out of the water and then some» will fly when another government agency is in his sights?

The BBC is reporting that Brazil's Environment Ministry has drawn up a list of the 100 worst illegal loggers.

The Brazilian government frequently launches police operations to fight illegal loggers in the forest, but environmentalists say more is needed.

Reuters last week published photographs of Amazon Indians who captured, stripped and beat illegal loggers on their reservation in Para.

Even without the palm oil, it faces a myriad of other threats, from raids by bush meat hunters trapping and shooting primates, antelopes and elephants, to incursions from illegal loggers and miners prospecting for iron ore.

Researchers suspect that the newly contacted people were fleeing illegal loggers and cocaine traffickers in part of their home territory in a Peruvian park.

Amazon tribal people crossed the border from Peru to Brazil fleeing drug smugglers and illegal loggers who are killing them and burning their homes.

Governments and their partners should help protect community forest rights by, for example, mapping community forest boundaries, helping to expel illegal loggers, and not granting commercial concessions over community forests.

Brazil's indigenous Paiter Surui people are desperate for help: armed illegal loggers, gold and diamond miners are invading their ancestral land, felling trees, poisoning rivers and threatening the forest dwellers at gunpoint.

Numerous Romanian forest experts have told EIA that illegal loggers often use a hammer and pipe to make such fake stamps.

But illegal loggers continue to fell lucrative rosewood while growing populations encroach on pristine rainforest and its wildlife, hunting bush meat.

In a speech last year, Mr. da Silva acknowledged that his work battling illegal loggers put him in grave danger.

«The [illegal loggers] are destroying our environmental heritage; affecting my generation and future ones too.»

Scientific advances in wood identification are improving chances of catching illegal loggers endangering the world's most threatened rainforests.

When they find illegal loggers they confiscate their equipment.

His father - in - law, Khun Thong, is one of Cambodia's most prolific illegal loggers.

«Communities swap information and can see things like when illegal loggers or miners are encroaching into their forest.»

They never go inside the jungle to patrol or arrest illegal loggers.»

For decades, the lush Amazon rainforest in Brazil has served as the backdrop to escalating tensions between an indigenous population which calls the region home, and illegal loggers dead - set on exploiting its natural wealth — though the worst of the resulting atrocities may be at hand.

The Brazilian plan rests in part on using satellites, laws and police to combat illegal loggers and ranchers.

In recent years, several forest activists have been attacked and even killed by illegal loggers and other special interests who broker deals with corrupt local politicians and courts.

The Internet giant is helping a tiny indigenous group protect their land against illegal loggers.

Updated, Nov. 16, 12:07 p.m. One week ago, two members of a four - person team patrolling for illegal loggers and wildlife poachers in the Preah Vihear Protected Forest in northwestern Cambodia were shot and killed in their sleep, as Mongabay reported.

Leng and community forest patrollers often use motorbikes to travel efficiently around the forests and put up signs to stop illegal loggers.

«Darong, 47, and Yoh, 29, were gunned down by cold - blooded killers with high powered weapons as they slept during an overnight patrol tracking illegal loggers and poachers in the Preah Vihear Protected Forest, near Robonh village in northwestern Cambodia in the Choam Khsant district.

Just last week it came out that the civil unrest in Madagascar was having some spill over into the green sphere, with illegal loggers and poachers filling the void.

Long - ruling Prime Minister Hun Sen, whom many consider a backer of the biggest logging group, Try Pheap, recently said he had authorized rocket attacks on illegal loggers.

• Investigate the alleged corrupt links between public officials and illegal loggers in Ucayali and prosecute where corruption is identified.

Suddenly it isn't just a few napping forest wardens who stand between the jungle and an army of illegal loggers and rule - bending soy farmers.

In recent decades, however, illegal loggers, irresponsible farmers, and gold miners have begun to raze large swaths of once - pristine rainforest in pursuit of short - term profit.

But even with significant gains in rights, forest communities are facing threats from agricultural expansion, illegal loggers, and drug traffickers.

The governor, however, said his administration's Public - Private Partnership initiative would restore the forestry sub-sector of the state for greater productivity, noting that the PPP initiative was planned to stop the activities of encroachers, flitchers, illegal loggers and Indian hemp growers in the state.

Environmentalists are bugging rainforests with discarded smartphones to catch poachers and illegal loggers

The community on the right continues to fight constantly against illegal loggers.

There were figures saying deforestation is slowing down, others saying clearing is speeding up, many announcements from the government (like the idea of a permit to enter the jungle or forbidding banks to give loans to illegal loggers) and even the appearance of an international Amazon fund.

Madagascar's unparalleled National Parks, which are also UNESCO World Heritage sites, are being infiltrated and destroyed by illegal loggers.

According to a Radio Free Asia report, the three had confiscated chainsaws and motorcycles from eight illegal loggers in a wildlife sanctuary near the Vietnamese border in Cambodia's Mondulkiri province.

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But even with significant gains in rights, forest communities are facing threats from agricultural expansion, illegal loggers, and drug traffickers.

The program will involve training young people in the State — often recruited by illegal loggers and poachers — in sustainable economic activities such as bee keeping and mushroom farming.